Kim Dower- “They Took the Mailbox Away”
Date: August 27, 2020
Kim Dower reads “They took the mailbox away” from her collection “Air Kissing on Mars” Watch the full video here.
News & Reviews
News:
Susan Kinsolving Announced as Finalist for Connecticut Book Awards 2020
Date: August 27, 2020
The Connecticut Center for the Book and Connecticut Humanities on Wednesday announced the finalists for the prizes, an annual honor bestowed on authors and illustrators who live in or are […]
Dolores Hayden Announced as Finalist for Connecticut Book Awards 2020
Date: August 27, 2020
The Connecticut Center for the Book and Connecticut Humanities on Wednesday announced the finalists for the prizes, an annual honor bestowed on authors and illustrators who live in or are […]
2020 Washington State Book Awards: Finalists
Date: August 27, 2020
Poetry Finalists:All Its Charms by Keetje Kuipers (BOA Editions)Bright Stain by Francesca Bell (Red Hen Press)Hail and Farewell by Abby E. Murray (Perugia Press)Nightingale by Paisley Rekdal (Copper Canyon Press)Turn Around Time: A Walking Poem […]
Foreword Reviews Book of the Day
Date: August 27, 2020
Sugar, Smoke, Song: “Sensuous and surprising…”
Book lunch to include music, cocktails and doughnuts
Date: August 27, 2020
Author Lara Ehrlich knows how to add a little razzle-dazzle to a virtual event. Ehrlich, whose award-winning short story collection, “Animal Wife,” will make its debut — virtually — next Tuesday, with […]
Sebastian Matthews’ Playlist for His Memoir “Beyond Repair”
Date: August 26, 2020
Beyond Repair by Sebastian Matthews In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include […]
Are We Comfortable Encountering Strangers Anymore?
Date: August 26, 2020
Sebastian Matthews on Balancing Suspicion and Good Faith Beyond Repair is told through a series of encounters with friends and neighbors, colleagues and strangers, from early 2014 to spring 2019. […]
An Expert Explained To Me How Young Kids Process Death – Here’s What I Learned
Date: August 26, 2020
For once, my daughter Cora* is careful while descending the stairs and does not leap from the second step. She comes to me wide-eyed, cradling something in her fist. “It’s a ladybug,” […]
They Write By Night
Date: August 24, 2020
This video by Poetry.LA features Red Hen author William Anchila’s newest poem!
Reviews:
Sheila Regan reviews Cheri Johnson’s ANNIKA ROSE for MinnPost!
Date: May 22, 2024
In Cheri Johnson’s “Annika Rose,” the titular character is just 17-years-old when the novel begins. Annika lives in a trailer with her father where they’ve lived since her mother died […]
Foreword reviews ANOTHER NORTH by Jennifer Brice
Date: May 22, 2024
“Written in her middle age, the essays in Jennifer Brice’s memoir Another North cover her perspectives on place, selfhood, and life in general. Alaska, with its massive scale and minus-fifty-degree […]
Eve Hutcherson reviews Gaylord Brewer’s BEFORE THE STORM TAKES IT AWAY for Chapter 16!
Date: May 22, 2024
Prolific Murfreesboro poet Gaylord Brewer turns his hand to short nonfiction in Before the Storm Takes It Away, his latest from Red Hen Press. While the structure of the 125 pieces […]
ANNIKA ROSE by Cheri Johnson reviewed by Diane Josefowicz on West Trade Review!
Date: May 21, 2024
Typically resourceful and resilient, Annika Rose Rogers has become stuck. Plunged into painful limbo after her high school graduation, the titular heroine of Cheri Johnson’s debut novel is fast outgrowing […]
Light Poetry Magazine features review of William Trowbridge’s CALL ME FOOL!
Date: May 15, 2024
William Trowbridge has stopped by the pages of Light before in the guise of Oldguy (Reviews, Summer/Fall 2020). Now he’s back with a collection recounting the exploits of a classic persona, The Fool, traced […]
LA Times recommends Jennifer Brice’s ANOTHER NORTH among “20 new books you need to read this summer”!
Date: May 15, 2024
Brice previously chronicled her Alaska youth in “Unlearning to Fly.” In “Another North,” she returns to Fairbanks as a divorced woman longing for a sense of home. The new collection […]
Publishers Weekly features review of Percival Everett’s SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY!
Date: May 15, 2024
Everett’s formally virtuosic latest collection (after The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke) interrogates the sonnet form as both a mode for thought and a vehicle for sonic […]
Randall Freisinger reviews William Trowbridge’s CALL ME FOOL for The Birmingham Poetry Review!
Date: May 14, 2024
This review appears in the Spring, 2024 issue, no. 51, pp. 223-7. To Move Wild Laughter Near the end Shakespeare’s Love’s Labours Lost, the heroine, Rosaline, tells her suitor […]
William Trowbridge’s CALL ME FOOL reviewed by Richard Simpson for Tar River Poetry!
Date: May 14, 2024
This review appears in vol. 63, no. 1, fall, 2023, pp. 54-6. FOOLISH VIRTUOSITY William Trowbridge. Call Me Fool. Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press, 2022. $17.95, paper. William Trowbridge […]
Poetry Foundation Reviews BLUE ATLAS by Susan Rich
Date: May 13, 2024
Blue Atlas by Susan Rich takes its title from the Blue Atlas Cedar found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. As the book’s epigraph explains: “It is the hardiest species and […]